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Avi Chawla

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Daily tutorials and insights on DS, ML, LLMs, and RAGs • Co-founder @dailydoseofds_ • IIT Varanasi • ex-AI Engineer @ MastercardAI
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    Apr 13, 2025
    10 MCP, AI Agents, and RAG projects for AI Engineers (with code):
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    KV, Prefix, Prompt and Semantic Caching in LLMs, clearly explained
    Everything you need to understand where your input tokens are being recomputed and what to do about it. It covers the four cache layers from first principles, their trade-offs, what happens when they...
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    Aug 27
    5 LLM quantization techniques, clearly explained: (bookmark this) A 70B model in FP16 needs 140GB for weights alone. At 4-bit, that drops to 35GB, which fits on one card. But naive rounding fails on large models. Roughly 0.1% of hidden dimensions carry values up to 20x larger
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    Jun 28
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    How LLM Inference Works, Clearly Explained.
    Every generate() call to an LLM runs two distinct computational phases on the same GPU: prefill (processing the prompt) is compute-bound while decode (generating tokens one at a time) is memory-bound....
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    Aug 26
    Anthropic did something you'll regret ignoring: They split one coding task across four agents by role, as a planner, implementer, tester, and reviewer. The goal was to test whether splitting agents by job title is a good way to divide the work. And they found agents spent more
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    Aug 26
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    How Semantic Code Navigation Cuts Agent Token Costs by up to 36%
    Microsoft cancelled Claude Code for 5,000 engineers this year, after token costs climbed to $500 to $2,000 a month per engineer. Microsoft wasn’t alone. Uber’s CTO said the company went through its...
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